INDIANA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES SERMONS OCCASIONAL AND PAROCHIAL, BY THE REV. JOHN KEBLE, M.A., FORMERLY PROFESSOR OF POETRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD; BX K4 55 1878 Oxford and London: JAMES PARKER AND CO. 1878. NL "IT may be proper to advertise the reader, that he is not to look for any particular reason for the choice of these discourses; their being taken from amongst others, preached through a course of many years, being in great measure accidental. "Neither is he to expect any other connection between them, than that uniformity of thought and design which will always be found in the writings of the same person, when he writes with simplicity and in earnest.”—BP. BUTLER Preface to Sermons. 1-4-82 " CONTENTS. "By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, |